Hello everyone it's good to see you again. I would like to apologize for not uploading this sooner than usual but I had a little writers block but I dealt with it and so to make it up to you I present you the longest chapter up to date. . for now. So before we begin
Characters will be slightly to fully OoC, especially one character that you will see very soon :D
Disclaimer: All characters belong to their rightful owners I only own the story
Now then without further adieu, lets begin
Death was walking up towards Ruby's dorm carrying in his arm the two broken pieces of Ruby's scythe. Death went into the elevator of the dorms and went up to Ruby's dorm room and walked to her part of the dorm. He stopped right in front of her room door thinking whether or not he should not knock. It was at that moment that he thought 'Since when am I considerate about these things' before he kicked the door open waking Ruby up in a fright
"WHO WHAT, WHAT'S GOING ON!" Ruby shouted looking around and seeing her dad standing in the doorway "Would it kill you to knock!" Ruby shouted at her father before throwing her pillow at him as he took a step to the side as the pillow flew harmlessly by him "Get dressed we're going to repair your weapon so hurry it up" Death said walking away from the door knowing Ruby had her arms crossed at him with a pout on her face
Death waited for a few minutes as Ruby came out of her room fully dressed "Hold on, let me leave a note for the others so they know where I am" Ruby said before Yang's door opened revealing a groggy and hair frizzled Yang wearing her pajamas "No need, your prick of a father woke me and probably everyone else with that kick" Yang said groggily while glaring at Death who looked uninterested
"If you need me I'll be by the airships waiting for you to finish up" Death said leaving the room by walking towards the balcony and jumped over it ". . .It's kinda sad how were getting use to his actions don't you think" Yang said dryly while Ruby just laughed weakly at that.
Death was walking towards the airships still carrying Ruby's destroyed scythe as he a saw an airship pull up. Death ignored it and kept walking until the door open and saw someone coming out ". . You got to be kidding me" Death said as he saw a familiar man with messy silver hair and was in one hand carrying a mug and the other a cane "Trust me when I say this, seeing you so soon after getting out of the hospital is not on my list of things to do" Ozpin said bitterly as he walked towards Death with Goodwitch close behind
The two sized each other up and Death saw no malice in the man's eyes even though he brutally hurt him "You're probably wondering why I'm not mad" Ozpin guessed as Death crossed his arms "The thought did come to mind for second" Death said warily as he was ready to attack at any moment "Well after you sent me to the hospital it's been a bit of touch and go for awhile that it made me think about all the mistakes I've made in the pass" Ozpin said as Death raised his brow wondering where this was going
"It made me realize that it was all my fault, Summer, Ruby's seal, never telling you about her, everything. And because of that I wish to say one thing. I'm sorry" Ozpin said sincerely as he bowed to Death who was stunned along with Goodwitch with his action "I- Wha. Who the hell are you?" Death asked not knowing what to say as he could see Goodwitch was thinking the same thing
"Being on the verge of death, no pun intended, made me think of what I would've missed out in life. So because of that I decided to just apologize and leave you the hell alone with your issues for me to continue teaching at my wonderful academy" Ozpin said with a smile as the two others with him was giving him a blank look ". . . I repeat, who the FUCK are you!?" Death questioned loudly as Ozpin's mouth twitched in annoyance
"Oi, I'm here trying to apologize for everything I done and you're acting like I'm some sort of robot" Ozpin said slightly annoyed ". . . Goodwitch, are you sure you got Ozpin and not some robot" Death asked ticking Ozpin off a little bit more "I'm starting to wonder that myself" Goodwitch muttered to herself as Ozpin looked at her in shock
Ozpin was about to say something but held his tongue and sighed before turning back to Death "So here it is Death I leave you and your family alone and you don't try to kill me and my faculty. . . He didn't try to kill anyone when I was gone right?" Ozpin asked Goodwitch who snapped back into reality "No surprisingly he hasn't. .Yet" Goodwitch implied as Death glared at her slightly "If I wanted to I would've done it ages ago" Death said dryly as Goodwitch glared back at him
"So what is the real reason, knowing you, you actually have something planned in advance to use me for something" Death said questioning Ozpin's motives "Nope nothing at all" Ozpin answered simply as Death lowered his arms and stared at Ozpin blankly ". . . . You're joking" Death said not believing what he's hearing "Nope completely serious when I say that I'm sorry for everything that I've done and that I'll never use your daughter for anything. Besides from what I know from my sources, and what you can guess is happening is that you're going to need all the help you can get in the near future and you know it" Ozpin said seriously as Death gauged his truthfulness and found he didn't lie once
"Fine, I accept your damn apology. Just so you know if you do anything that messes with me or ends up nearly killing Ruby, I will end you" Death threatened as Ozpin smiled "Then it'll never happen" Ozpin replied happily as the two stayed in the same spot "So. How did you heal so quickly" Death asked as Ozpin smiled
"Senzu bean"
"Senzu what?" Death said confused as Ruby came up next to him "Alright lets go. Oh, hello professor welcome back" Ruby said politely as Ozpin waved to her "No seriously how the hell are you standing" Death said as he was ignored when Ozpin along with Goodwitch walked passed him "Oy! Answer me, the hell is a Senzu bean" Death shouted at Ozpin who started laughing while waving goodbye making Death irritated
". . . . .Senzu bean?" Ruby asked confused to her dad who was still seething before he calmed down and addressed her "Forget it. Let's go and fix that weapon of yours seeing as it's not just going to go fix itself. The Kubikiribōchō could but that's beside the point" Death said dryly as Ruby looked even more confused when they entered the airship
As the two entered the airship they sat down on the seats near the exit as Death pulled out his Scroll "What are you doing?" Ruby asked as Death began looking through his scroll "I'm trying to find a repairman to come and stay at Beacon to repair my room because seriously it's always my room that gets messed up the most and it's really annoying to repair the damn room all the time" Death said irritably as he began looking through some adds
"So what are you going to do?" Ruby asked kicking her feet back and forth "Right now I'm going through adds to look for a repairman who would like to be contracted to stay at Beacon and work for the long run, and when I mean long run I mean until he is brutally killed by accident from one of your teams explosive antics" Death deadpanned as he kept looking through the adds while Ruby gave him a blank
"Well. do whatever you want, I'm going to take a nap" Ruby said with a yawn as she closed her eyes. Death just rolled his eyes at her and kept looking through the adds until one came up that had an overall great work ethic with a description of the things this company done "Hmm~ Evi's Friendly Fixen, sounds interesting even though the owner wears odd clothing, and mostly in pink but if the statements of the successful jobs say anything of his work then I'll give him a call later" Death said looking through other adds for anything better
Death shook Ruby a bit and woke her up from the three hour flight as they have made it to their destination "Where are we" Ruby asked with a yawn as she stretched a bit "We're at one of the smaller islands in the Atlas region called the Maker Island" Death explained as they made their way out of the airship into a small bustling town
"So where are we going?" Ruby asked swaying her arms back in forth while following her father "We're going out to the edge of town where the Black Hammer's forge is" Death said as Ruby nodded silently while taking in the sights around her before noticing a large building and at the center was a praying Shinto shrine with a few incense burning around it
"Something the matter" Death asked as he stopped when he felt she wasn't walking and noticed her gaze and his eyes twitched slightly at the sight of the shrine. Death didn't have a hatred towards shrines or praying, it was just this shrine owner he had a slight disposition with as he could see her in the back glaring right at him
"Can we go in for a second" Ruby asked as Death's eyes twitched in annoyance of going into that shrine "Maybe when we leave we'll pay a visit but for now let's go fix that scythe of yours" Death said hoping that Ruby would forget about the shrine when she gets her new weapon "Okay" Ruby said simply as the two went on their way towards the outskirts of town where Ruby saw ruins like the ones in Emerald Forest in Beacon. The two soon saw a massive wall and a gate covered in moss and other vegetation
"Open it" Death said abruptly making Ruby flinch in surprise before looking at him "I'm sorry?" Ruby asked slowly not getting what he wanted "I need you to open the gate by pushing it open. Think of it as training" Death said as Ruby thought what he said was kinda crazy but mulled it over when she over to the gate and quickly realized the gate was about ten times her own height
Ruby put both her hands on the gate and pushed it forward. When Ruby pushed the gate it didn't budge so she tried again and it still didn't budge. Ruby huffed before started pushing with her entire body against the gate with her shoulder as she was scraping against the ground with her feet trying to push her forward to no avail
Death had his hand on him mask at Ruby attempts to open the gate to no avail "You do realize there is a lock on it right" Death pointed out with his hand still on his mask as Ruby looked up to realize that there was a bar holding it in place. Ruby gave out an embarrassed laugh while scratching the back of her head before pulling the bar and pushed the gate open slowly but just
When Ruby opened to door to let the both of them in she let go to give her father an accomplished smile, only for the slammed shut hitting her from behind and sending her face first into the ground next to her father "Shut up" Ruby said muffled while still face down on the ground while her father let out a small chuckle
Ruby got up as Death walked towards the gate and she saw the two aura hands appear with each hand on each gate pushed opened the gate with ease as it slammed open on the walls of the other side of the gate. Death turned back looking at Ruby who saw the mocking look in his eyes as she stuck her tongue at him
Death let out a silent chuckle as the two entered the premise. As Ruby entered the doors swung back and slammed shut behind her making Ruby jump a good feet away from the sudden action before hearing her father chuckling again and pouted at him
As the two entered Death turned his head to the right "Hello Muria" Death said as Ruby noticed the large woman with white hair with a blindfold over her eyes "It's a pleasure to see you again Death and to you child of Death" Muria said politely with a bow before returning to a large gazebo that had various of plants some of which Ruby noticed were medicinal from the book of remedies that she had to read as the leader of her team
"I'm going to need some poison and before you ask surprise me, and yes I'm going to need the antidote. We don't want what happened last time to repeat itself" Death called out still walking towards the main building as Ruby heard Muria give out a soft chuckle "Why do you need poison" Ruby asked hesitantly "It's just in case I need to poison some persons next meal" Death said cryptically but still sent a shiver down Ruby's spine
As the two kept walking they began to approach the entrance to a forge and Ruby looked to the side and saw a massive hammer on its head with it's hilt pointing upright with moss covering most of it. Ruby stood there looking at the hammer in awe for a bit before she noticed that she was being dragged by her father to the side as Ruby gave him a questioning look before she saw him walking towards the hammer and the next part made her scared
A large man was hammering away on a intricate sword as he heard the gate slammed open meaning only one of two things. One he is being attacked and is going to have to kill all the people invading his property without his permission because it's rude to come uninvited or two.
CRACK
At that moment his door burst into pieces as his hammer was thrown through it and embedded into the wall in front of him. Or two "Horseman" the man said with a deep gruff voice "Hello Ulthane" Death said dryly with his arms crossed at the large man in front of him
"Watcha want Death and haven't you ever heard of the word called knocking" the man now called Ulthane said in annoyance "No he does not" Ruby muttered as Death ignored her "I need you to remake my daughters weapon seeing as I destroyed it" Death explained as Ulthane once more stopped hammering the sword to look at them for a bit before letting out a full blown laughter "S-So y-you ac-actually fathered a child" Ulthane said between laughs as he kept on laughing hysterically
Ulthane kept laughing as Death walked forward and ripped the hammer out of Ulthane's hand and whacked him across the face with it. Ulthane stopped laughing and slowly turned his head back to Death and growled as the two men stared each other down before Ulthane grinned "So what's your name girlie" Ulthane asked looking behind Death's shoulder
"R-Ruby Rose" Ruby stuttered from the sudden question as Ulthane mulled over her name "Uh huh" Ulthane said with no interest what so ever as he took the hammer back from Death and finished hammering the sword and dropped it into a bat of water, letting out a loud hiss of steam from the water touching the hot metal
"Alright. What do you want" Ulthane said as he sat down on the stool next to him. Death tossed him the bag containing Crescent Rose as Ulthane looked at the broken scythe "Of course that kid of yours is a scythe wielder" Ulthane mused as he put the two pieces and placed them on the table near his workstation "Seems the weapon was well cared of to the point you might say it was a living person" Ulthane said as he examined the weapon as Ruby felt slightly proud of herself when he said that
"So what do ya want me to do. Ya want me to make a replacement for the weapon or seeing as how well cared this weapon by your daughter here do you want me to take it apart and put it into the new weapon and melt down the rest to engrave it into the new one" Ulthane asked as he put the weapon down "The latter" Death said quickly as Ruby mulled over the fact Crescent Rose, even if it won't be Crescent Rose will still be with her
"Hmm~. . . .Alright then but the process will take awhile, approximately a day at most if I rush it" Ulthane said as he began taking the weapon apart "Also it depends whether you want it to be able to shoot or not because that's a variable in making a weapon" Ulthane asked as Death looked over to Ruby who nodded "Yes I want it to be able to shoot. If you could, could you make it in a high powered rifle with a quick bolt action slot and a suppressor as Crescent Rose couldn't hold a suppressor" Ruby asked with her eyes shining in the prospect of her new weapon
Ulthane stood there in silence before addressing Death "You sure she's your daughter and not some hussy saying she is" Ulthane asked slowly before hearing a growl and looked to see Ruby glaring at him with red-orange eyes like her father. Ulthane stared at her passively before turning back to Death with a grin "Never mind, seems she is your daughter" Ulthane said with a laugh
Ulthane stopped laughing as Ruby's eyes turned back to silver "Alright seeing as I'm going to turn the scythe into a gun it'll take a bit longer so about two days" Ulthane summarized until a door opened in the back as a man with the same stature as Ulthane who wore a welders mask covering his face walked in "Oy Valus, when the hell did you get here?" Ulthane asked Valus who just stared at them silently
"Where the bloody hell are ya brother" A woman as tall and muscular built as them walked in and saw everyone looking at her "Well are you just going stand around and stare at me or are you going to bloody tell me what's going on" The woman said with her hands on her hips "Ah shut it Alya. Well it seems my two assistants have finally come back, good timing too seeing as I didn't really feel up to the challenge of making your weapon" Ulthane said happily as the two siblings gave him a blank look
". . . So we're forging Death a new weapon" Alya said breaking the silence "Nope, you making his daughter a new weapon" Ulthane as the two siblings looked at Ruby who waved at them meekly "He, he hello" Ruby said softly still really not used to this much attention ". . . Huh. . I thought that was just a rumor" Alya said with head tilted slightly
"Uh huh yea can we get back on track now" Death said dryly with exasperation "Right, Right. Well seeing as you two are here. Valus make the gun parts, Alya make the design and the cast for the base while I get the materials and ready the kiln in the back" Ulthane said as they all grunted in agreement and went to work on their workstations and began doing as told
"Come on, let them get to work" Death said as he guided Ruby out the forge who wanted to stay and watch but couldn't as Death decided to pick her up and slung her over her shoulder "Hey! Put me down!" Ruby shouted as she hit Death's back with his fist repeatedly "Stop struggling Ruby, they don't like having people watching them work so stop and lets- . . . . Oh sweet Monty no" Death said suddenly as he stopped walking
Ruby was confused greatly by his actions "Now, Now Death is that anyway you should treat family after not seeing them in a long, long, long, loooooooooong time" the voice said as it was gruff yet sarcastic in nature as if the person was intentionally being annoying "You may be family but it doesn't mean I enjoy being around you Strife" Death said as the man Death called Strife just chuckled "Love you too ya Deathly sadistic bastard" Strife quipped as Death groaned as he placed Ruby down who turned and saw the man in front of her
Strife was as tall as her father and had a silver mechanical mask that seemed eerily like a Grimm's mask as it had animalistic feel to it, especially it's bright yellow glow coming from lens of his mask. His hair that was visible was jet black like her fathers but his was spiked upright slightly in a ridiculous fashion. He had a tattered dark purple cape and a skin tight black leather armor. From his hands to about halfway to his shoulder he had a silver mechanical like armor covering the entire arm. From the waist down he wore the same mechanical like armor but in a dark purple and some pieces of silver amongst the purple.
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"Now who's this little thing" Strife said leaning down slightly to be at the same eye level as Ruby "I-I'm Ruby Rose. I guess I'm your niece, it's a pleasure to meet you uncle" Ruby said as politely as possible as Strife was silent for a bit "She's your kid" Strife said questionably "I mean, she's way nicer than you. You sure you didn't steal this kid from some family because that's the only way someone like her could be considered your child" Strife questioned as Ruby was about to yell at him for saying that Death beat her to the punch. . . by pointing Redemption in his face
"Say that again and I'll splatter your brains on the pavement and have the Beowolves feast on your innards" Death threatened as he pushed the gun closer to Strife's mask as Ruby could see Strife's eyes narrow at Death "You know it's not nice pointing your gun at your family. . .Especially when the gun your pointing at with IS MY FUCKING GUN, GIVE IT BACK YOU BASTARD!" Strife shouted as he tackled Death to the ground
Ruby watched in shock as the two wrestled on the ground throwing punches at each other "WHY THE HELL DID THE THREE OF YOU HAVE TO TAKE MY GUNS INSTEAD OF GETTING YOUR DAMN OWN!" Strife shouted as he punched Death across his face who then kneed him in the gut and rolled him over so he was on top and began throwing punches at him "Maybe it's because WE DON'T LIKE YOU FOR BEING A COMPLETE IDIOT MOST OF THE TIME!" Death shouted back as he kept punching him until Strife got a punch in and hit Death directly in his face sending him back slightly enough for Strife to get both his legs enough room to kick Death in the gut and send him flying
Strife quickly got up and charged at Death who got in an instant and started throwing punches at his brother and during this entire time Ruby just watched slacked jawed as she watched them brutally attack each other and was worried for her father for a bit before he called out to "RUBY I'M GOING TO BE HERE FOR AWHILE, SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL LEAVE" Death shouted at Ruby not looking in her direction as he caught Strife's punch and headbutted him into a stagger and kicked the side of his head
Ruby not knowing what the hell was going on anymore decided to listen to her father and left the two fighting siblings with a heavy sigh as she went back into town
Ruby was walking carefree around town looking at the sights as she already ate lunch awhile ago and decided to see what she could do while waiting for her father and uncle, if his uncle is able to walk after her father is done beating him up from what she saw
Ruby stopped and noticed she was at the shrine she wanted to go earlier "Should I go in" Ruby muttered silently to herself as she contemplated whether she should go into the shrine "I'm sure the priestess or whoever runs this shrine wouldn't mind" Ruby said as she walked into the shrines entrance passing by some priestesses who don't make a motion to Ruby so she kept going until she came upon a Shinto shrine in the center of the courtyard of the shrine area
Ruby thought whether she should pray or not but was taken out of her thoughts when someone tapped her shoulder and turned to see someone standing over her. The person was a beautiful woman dressed in a pure white kimono with red accents and a sash, the woman had pure white long flowing hair and fair skin. The most distinguishable feature was the red markings on her face that didn't take away her beauty but gave her a more pure feel to her while drawing people's attention away from the wolf ears with a red tip on her head that actually enhanced her beauty as if she was a benevolent goddess
"Hello there child, may I ask why you are here" the priestess asked with a kind benevolent smile "I-I just wondered if it was okay to pray or not" Ruby stuttered slightly when she looked into the woman's white eyes "Of course child, truthfully I was going to pray right now. Why don't you join me" the woman asked kindly as Ruby nodded and two got on their knees and started praying
after awhile the woman opened her eyes "Tell me child, is there a reason for you to pray" The woman asked politely "I just want to pray to the well being of my friends and family. As well as to tell my mother that I'm doing well" Ruby said softly as she opened her eyes and stopped praying "I see, well I guess I should introduce myself yet. My name is Amaterasu and I'm the head priestess of this shrine" Amaterasu said with smile
"Hello Ama-amat uhh" Ruby stuttered trying to say her name right as the woman giggled "You can call me Ammy, most of my friends do" Amaterasu said with a smile as Ruby nodded as she looked over her shoulder and saw her dad walking up to them. Amaterasu saw her gaze go behind her and noticed who it was and quickly glared at the Death who was approaching them
"What?" Death said to Amaterasu who kept on glaring at him as Ruby approached him "What happen to uncle Strife" Ruby asked slightly worried for her new uncle "He's fine, I just left him in the woods somewhere" Death said with a shrug
~Earlier~
Death and Strife were panting heavily as Strife slumped down onto the ground against a tree "Alright. I'm sorry. Can we. Can we call a time out" Strife said panting slightly as Death eased his breathing back to normal "Might as well seeing as I decimated you as usual" Death said slightly smug as he was still standing "Fuck. You" Strife spat out as he flinched behind his mask from the internal bleeding his brother gave him
"Seems you still have that horrible mouth of yours when you don't make those awful suggestions" Death said with a chuckle while Strife just flipped him off ". . . So she's really your daughter" Strife asked silently "Yep" Death answered nonchalantly ". . I see. . . so that means the only virgins left is War and Fury" Strife summed up as Death faced palmed at what Strife said
"Is that really important" Death asked tiredly "Of course it is. It means now, I have a brother who isn't a virgin. Welcome to the non-virgin club brotha" Strife said happily as he gave Death a thumbs up only for him to be kicked in the face by Death "And this is why none of the family can ever have a pleasant conversation when you're around" Death said dryly as Strife waved him off
". . . So~, you wouldn't mind if I spend the day with her would you?" Strife asked as Death gave him a blank look "Hell will freeze over before I let you spend time with her" Death said bluntly as Strife gave him a gesture of mock "How could you say that to your own brother Death, and here I just wanted to spend time with her like family should" Strife said innocently before being kicked again "SONOVA!" Strife shouted in pain
"Bullshit" Death said bluntly as Strife flipped him off again "Oh come on, I was planning on taking her to a strip cl- ACK, SONOVA!" Strife shouted in agony when Death kicked his face again "Okay one, she's a girl" Death said annoyed at what Strife said "Doesn't mean can't play for either te- ACK!" Strife shouted as he was once more kicked in the face
"Second. No fucking way I'm going to let you corrupt her like that, and third." Death said as he once more kicked Strife in the face "OW! DA FUCK WAS THAT FOR!" Strife shouted "No reason, just felt like I should hurt you for future encounters" Death said as Strife grumbled in annoyance which Death rolled his eyes out before giving his hand to Strife "Come on you idiot" Death said as Strife flicked him off once more before grabbing Death's hand and pulled himself up
Strife dusts himself off before facing Death "Why are you here anyway?" Death asked as Strife cracked his back "I'm here to get Requiem refitted with new parts" Strife said as he pulled out his gun "Why are you here?" Strife asked crossing his arms at Death "Ruby needs a new weapon seeing as I destroyed her previous one" Death said as Strife seemed to flinch "Oo~ I wouldn't know about her but if it was my weapon I would've been devastated" Strife said scratching the back of his neck
"She was actually" Death said with a shrug as a gleam appeared in Strife's eyes "Oh by the dust yes, I have a niece who loves weapons, hell yea!" Strife exclaimed happily before being slapped by Death "Don't go gun-aholic on me Strife" Death said dryly as Strife flipped him off again "How we are related is a mystery to me" Death said as he shook his head with a sigh "Come now brother don't be like that, remember all the good times we had together" Strife said as he wrapped his arm around Death's shoulder
"The only good times I think you're mentioning is the times when you ran away from a mob of people you pissed off and sent them on me and War" Death said dryly as he glared at Strife "Eh, Semantics" Strife said waving Death off who shrugged him off his shoulder "Now as much as I say this is an interesting reunion, I'm going to go find Ruby" Death said walking away "So where are we going" Strife said walking carefree behind Death
Death stopped and glared at Strife who stopped with him ". . Fine, I'll leave you two alone for now" Strife said walking the other direction to Ulthane's forge. Death walked towards the town and sensed Ruby's aura and felt her in the direction of the shrine and sighed heavily when he felt the familiar aura of the person next to her
Death sighed as he walked into the shrine and saw them in a kneeling position as Ruby noticed him as well as Amaterasu who he wanted to avoid she was now glaring viciously at him "What" Death said trying to make her stop glaring at him "What happened to uncle Strife" Ruby asked worriedly "He's fine, I just left him in the woods somewhere" Death said giving her the lazy answer of where he is
Amaterasu got up from her kneeling positioned and walked up to Death 'Here it comes' Death thought dryly as Amaterasu gave him a smile while her eyes was covered vicious veil of hate "Hello Death how are you" Amaterasu said through her teeth "Cut the crap and get it out of your system" Death said bluntly as Ruby was about to yell at him for being rude to a priestess but stopped when Amaterasu's next action made her speechless
"CHOKE ON A DICK AND DIE" Amaterasu shouted viciously as she punched Death straight to his face with an massively aura enhanced punch that sent him flying into the wall a few meters back and through it
"W-W-Wha?" Ruby sputtered out as she saw Amaterasu pull back her sleeves and Ruby saw both her forearms were covered in ice blue Tomoe beads. The beads separated from each other and began slowly hovering over her forearms with an icy mist coming from them "Ugh, you done yet" Death asked dryly as he walked through the wall dusting off debris from his shoulder
"I'm going to murder you slowly" Amaterasu said slowly in a cold, hatred filled voice which made Ruby balked at how such a nice person could be like that "Is this because I burned down that temple back in Mistral and killed that man, if it is. I'm not sorry" Death said as Amaterasu growled and threw her right hand forward as the beads acted like a whip and swung at Death who jumped out of the way
"Geez, you burn down one temple and kill a man inside who was praying at the time and people start thinking you're the devil. . . . Well something close to it at least" Death muttered as he rubbed his neck at the last part before rolling out of the way from the descending strike that left bits of ice on the ground where it struck "Tch, It's not my fault my target was hiding out in the temple, what was I supposed to do. Leave" Death asked exasperatedly as he leaned back from the horizontal swipe
Death kept on dodging Amaterasu's attacks from her beads and was getting annoyed "Alright, that's it. You keep attacking and I'll attack back" Death said as he flipped back in the air from the next attack landed in a crouch as he pulled out Redemption and was ready to shoot her until Ruby stood in between
"ENOUGH! BOTH OF YOU STOP!" Ruby shouted at the two of them as Amaterasu was surprised and wavered in her current attack as it fell with a crack onto the ground next to Ruby while Death kept his gun up while his other hand was subtly hidden and covered in aura to use his aura grip to pull Ruby away to Amaterasu at the next chance he gets.
"I don't know what is going on but stop, Ammy you're a priestess and you're attacking in a middle of a shrine. Doesn't that go against your morals of what you been taught" Ruby asked as Amaterasu flinched when she realized that Ruby was right "And dad whatever you did it was probably a horrible thing to do" Ruby said simply as Death scoffed "Oh come on it wasn't that ba-" Death said as he stopped when Ruby started glaring at him with her red-orange eyes
". . . . Maybe bad in your definition, but in mine it's perfectly normal" Death said with a huff as he put Redemption away and crossed his arms at her as Ruby huffed in irritation "Why is it that I feel like your personal mediator the second you became part of my life" Ruby asked dryly with a sigh while Death shrugged "How should I know, I didn't ask you to meddle in my arguments" Death said dully
Ruby puffed her cheeks at Death who shrugged her off before looking at Amaterasu who was still glaring at him "How about we deal with this later" Death said dryly as Amaterasu huffed and her beads connected and began to rest on her forearms as she rolled down her kimono's sleeves "Fine, but it doesn't mean you should be here any longer than you should be" Amaterasu spat out viciously
Death just waved her off and walked away "Ruby I'll be reserving you a room in the hotel in town, just ask for it at the check in and I'll see you later" Death said back to Ruby while walking out of the shrine as Ruby let out a heavy when he left
Amaterasu crossed her arms and glared at the direction Death left from "Um~ are you okay" Ruby asked meekly when Amaterasu turned her glare to Ruby who flinched for a bit until Amaterasu stopped glaring and let out a long dreary sigh "Sorry, I'm guessing you're wondering what that was about" Amaterasu said with a tired smile "Well from what I could gather he burned down one of the temples you pray to, just to get the guy he was hunting for" Ruby summed up tiredly as Amaterasu nodded slowly
"Come on, we'll talk about it somewhere else. The other priestesses are about to come here for the daily praying session" Amaterasu said as she led Ruby into one of the buildings near the shrine and into a quaint living room with two chairs and a coffee table in the middle "I guess I'll start at the beginning" Amaterasu said as she made some tea for them as they sat down on the chairs
"The guy Death was hunting was such a kind man who didn't deserved for that to happened to him" Amaterasu said sadly as Ruby could tell there was a story to this "I was staying at the temple as a normal priestess, not yet gaining the title of head priestess or my other title of warrior priestess which explains why I even have weapons on me in the first place" Amaterasu said with a giggle
"It was on a rainy day that I saw him walking towards the temple holding his side which I saw and smelled it was bleeding. So as a priestess I did the most normal thing we would do and bring him in and with the other priestesses we nursed him back to health. We never asked why he was hurt or how as we felt it wasn't our place to question peoples motives. When he got better he wanted to thank us so he stayed and did tasks that would've been too difficult for most of the priestesses" Amaterasu reminiscence with a smile
"We were actually quite close really, he would always help me out in a second, always guiding around the town, helping me preform my priestess duties" Amaterasu said with a sad smile as tears began to well up in her eyes "We fell in love you see" Amaterasu said sadly as Ruby felt like the weight of her sadness go over her "I was even planning to stop being a priestess just to be with him, especially with what we've done" Amaterasu said in a quiet voice "What you done" Ruby repeated quietly as a small cry came into the room
The two of them turn to see a young priestess carrying a baby in her arms "Sorry to disturbed you head priestess, it's just young Chibiterasu wouldn't stop crying out for you" The young priestess said as she walked up to Amaterasu and handed her the baby "It's alright, mama is here" Amaterasu soothed the baby who stopped crying and cooed to her touch
The young priestess left the two as Amaterasu rocked her child back and forth in her arms with hum as he soon fell asleep "This is all have left of him" Amaterasu said sadly as she gently push aside a lock of hair from her son's face "I-I'm sorry" Ruby said not knowing what to say in this depressing situation "It's not your fault. It was your damn fathers fault" Amaterasu whispered in rage as she gritted her teeth at what Death done
Ruby just looked down in shame before Amaterasu reached across and put her hand on Ruby's shoulder "It's alright Ruby there is nothing you should feel ashamed of. I just want you to remember something" Amaterasu said seriously as Ruby nodded in agreement "He may think of family as the most important thing in the world but only if it his family, remember he'll destroy other families to get what he wants in the end. Promise me you will never become like him" Amaterasu asked softly
"Of course Ammy, I won't and will never become like that" Ruby said with seriousness in her voice as Amaterasu gave her a kind smile and pulled her into a one arm hug as the other was holding her son "Thank you, at least there will be people like you in the world to take care of others like my son in the future" Amaterasu said softly as Chibiterasu gave out a cute yawn in his sleep which the two giggled at
Ruby spent the entire day with the two as she helped out the shrine with whatever work she could do until the sun began to set and she said her goodbyes to them and headed to town. When she made it to town she went to the hotel her father was staying at and picked up the keys to her room. Ruby walked up and approached her room and was about to enter but stopped to turn around to stare at her father's room that was directly opposite of her room.
Ruby stared at the door for awhile until she grit her teeth and glared at the door before approaching it. Ruby slammed the door open to see Death looking out the window as he slowly turned to her not caring she slammed the door open. Ruby could tell her eyes was burning red-orange as she had teeth bare and her hands clenched together
"Why" Ruby strained out viciously as Death raised a brow behind his mask "You are going to have to be more specific, because from what I can remember I have a lot to answer for in all of the four kingdoms. Though it's not like they can do anything, they can try but the second they do the death toll would be too high to count" Death said with a chuckle but stopped when he felt Ruby letting out her aura
"I asked. Why. Did you do it" Ruby said angrily while Death rolled his eyes "Well for various reasons actually. The first was because he was a wanted man for breaking a severe law in Minstral which was at the time govern by a tyrant so basically the law was unjust at the time" Death said nonchalantly as Ruby gaped at him "AND YOU WENT WITH IT!" Ruby shouted in disbelief "Meh, a job is job" Death said with a shrug
"So yeah I was hired to hunt and kill, uh what was his name" Death said as he stroked his chin in thought before he snapped his fingers "Now I remember, his name was Tsukuyomi. Well anyways I tracked him down to that temple and burned it down with him in it. . . . Now that I think about it, why did I burn down that temple when I could've easily went up to him and killed him point blank" Death said scratching his head at that fact
"But anyways I killed him and that's that" Death said simply as Ruby glared at him "Didn't you think of repercussions. Like the fact Ammy was his lover or the fact they were having a kid and you made her a single parent now" Ruby spat out viciously ". . . Now that I think about. . .No, I still would've done that but I would've made sure she would never find out that I killed because seriously every time that we cross paths she tries to kill me. It's getting really annoying now" Death said shaking his head at the fact that this was one of the many times she tried to kill him
Ruby was about to yell at him before realizing something "She attacked you multiple times and you didn't once try to kill her" Ruby asked slightly surprised "Of course not that goes against my moral standings of killing either doctors who actually care for their patients or religious figure. . The actual religious ones not the ones that say they are god or crap religions that you find a dime a dozen" Death explained as Ruby gave him a blank look
"What? Just because I will kill people on a dime doesn't mean I don't have morals. You're still here aren't you" Death said pointing to her as Ruby was slightly taken back by that "What's that supposed mean" Ruby questioned irritably "Well if I didn't have morals I would've killed you the second you existed" Death said bluntly while looked at him in shock "Oh don't give me that look, just be glad I'm the type of person who loves his own family. . others. . not so much" Death said with a shrug as Ruby looked at him blankly
"I don't know why I try to even talk to you sometimes" Ruby said slumping her head down with a sigh as she massaged her temples from the headache she's getting "Just roll with it and know there will be many, many, many more people who want me dead. Truth be told I'm amazed none of them have yet tried to kill me, excluding that small military op that one time which I killed and interrogated which you barged in at the time" Death said thinking back to when the military op came to Beacon for Ruby
"And you think I feel better about that" Ruby said tiredly "You should be, you never survive against most of the people that want me dead. Especially Samael" Death said muttering the last part beneath his breath as he looked outside to see if that demonic bastard is watching like all those other times and saw in the distance a flash of fire. Death narrowed his eyes wondering why is that bastard is coming for them or what he is planning
"Uh, you alright? You went all silent and started glaring at the window for no reason and I'm starting to get worried" Ruby said breaking Death's concentration as he turned to her "It's nothing, nothing at all" Death said looking back at the window "O~Kay" Ruby said slowly at Death "Promise me something Ruby" Death said abruptly "Uh, what?" Ruby asked confused at his sudden action
"Promise me you will never go near Vacou's capital until I deemed you strong enough to take of yourself" Death said seriously as he stared directly into Ruby's eyes "O-Okay, I promise" Ruby said nervous from his good as he let out a breath of relief "Good. Now then it's getting late and I think you should go to sleep" Death said as he began pushing her out his room with her shouting "WAIT HOLD ON!"
"I love to continue chatting but it's time for you to go to sleep" Death said quickly as he pushed her out of his room "WAIT!" Ruby shouted while turning around to her father "Goodnight" Death said merrily while slamming the door on her face leaving her in the hallway confused
". . . What just happened?" Ruby said meekly as she thought back to the things that happened "I tried to make him explain why he killed Tsukuyomi and he told me it was a job then he just stared out the window for a few moments then made me promise him something weird and then he kicked me out of his room. . I have no idea what is going through my dad's head at times" Ruby said to herself as she went to her room to get some sleep and decided to figure out what's going on later
Ruby spent most of the next day with Amaterasu as she took care of Chibiterasu while Amaterasu did her priestess duties. Ruby would usually see her father up on a branch in the tree outside the shrine waiting for her to finish while Amaterasu would send him glares from time to time
It was until Ruby heard cawing when she saw Dust fly down onto her shoulder that Death went into shrine "Come on, they finished your scythe so let's go" Death said as he walked out of the shrine and towards Ulthane's forge
"I guess I'm going to be leaving after I get my weapon" Ruby said slightly sad to Amaterasu who walked up to her holding Chibiterasu in her arms "Don't be sad Ruby, I'm glad I got the chance to meet such a wonderful young girl like you" Amaterasu said with a happy smile "Thank you Ammy, I hope to see you again" Ruby said happily as Chibi reached one of his hands out to Ruby "I hope to see you again too Chibi" Ruby said with a giggle as she gave his little hand a shake before saying goodbye to the two and catching up to Death
Ruby saw Death leaning against the gate to Ulthane's forge as he looked up at Ruby's arrival "Took your time I see" Death said dryly as she puffed her cheeks at him which he waved off as his two aura hands appeared and slammed the door open and walked in with Ruby right behind him. As soon as the two walked in Death had his hand held up high as a small package was thrown into his hand "Thank you Muria" Death said as he kept walking "Anytime" Muria said respectively as she went back into her gazebo
Ruby watching the two interact made her realize this was a common thing for them as their actions looked like it was choreographed. The two kept walking towards Ulthane's forge and entered seeing him leaning against the wall next to the door "About time you showed up. Valus is putting the final touches on the scythe, follow me" Ulthane said gruffly as he led them to another part of the forge
When Ruby entered this part of the forge her eyes bugged out from what she saw. The walls next to her had several weapons of various kinds from gauntlets, swords, glaives, axes and of course hammers. The weapons made her excited but it wasn't what made her eyes bug out, it was the giant lava waterfall that fell into a giant pool of lava where various craftsman tools were laid about on a stone table near it
Death saw Ruby's look of amazement and shook his head before slapping the back of her head "What was that for" Ruby nearly shouted "Well if we waited for you to finish staring we would be here for the rest of the day, and I'm sure you want to get back to school seeing as I never excused you from class" Death said before walking towards Alya and Valus with Ulthane
Ruby stood there for a moment to take in what she heard before her jaw "YOU DIDN'T EXCUSE ME FROM CLASS!" Ruby shouted at him in shock "What's the problem, it's just regular classes nothing that important" Death said nonchalantly with the others grunting in agreement. Ruby stood there with jaw hanging open and her eyes widen in shock before muttering something about 'Weiss is going to kill me for missing classes' while hanging her head down in depression
". . . . . . . .She's your kid" Alya said not believing what she's seeing and then looks at him who had one of his hands covering his eyes in shame "Ugh, don't remind me. Trust me I do care for her but there are times when she just-" Death said gesturing to Ruby who was muttering nonsense while crying anime tears causing them all to sweat drop "Just makes me want to leave the room" Death said tiredly as he went up to her lifted her up by her hood before she was about to bash her head against the nearby wall
"Oy, Valus ya done" Alya said to her brother who grunted and walked up to Ruby who saw her new scythe in his hands before handing it to her. Ruby gazed at her scythe in amazement as it was much slicker than her previous one but felt as heavy as it was before her true abilities was unlocked.
Half of the shaft and the firing mechanism of the scythe is coated in a ebony black along with the leather grip where her hands are gripping while the blade and the rest of the shaft was a dark crimson red. The scythe's blade had had a jagged indent in end tip where it gave it a menacing look and in the middle of the shaft had a silver emblem of her burning rose from what she could tell was the metal of her scythe's previous blade
Ruby saw the firing mechanism was the same as her previous scythe and smile at that and noticed at the top it had the barrel slightly wider and knew it was a silencer. Ruby then noticed the scythe had a latch for something and stared at for a second "Your scythe sniper function is heavy duty armor piercing shooter to the degree of piercing the armor of a higher level A rank Grimm and comes equipped with the black iron silencer that you asked for which doesn't hamper the strength of the shots it fires" Ulthane explained before noticing Ruby was looking at the latch
Ulthane smirked a bit "There is also another feature that you may or may not recognize, so why don't you flip that latch and be sure not to cut yourself" Ulthane said as Ruby looked at him before looking back at her scythe and flipped the latch before almost dropping her scythe when it split in two in a second and saw it was miniature versions of her scythe like her fathers that are resting on the sides of his hips
"As you can see I made it to split into smaller versions of your scythe like that ungrateful father yours has" Ulthane said as Death glared at him who just shrugged it off "There is also the fact it can compress even more to carry much easier than that of your compressed sniper form your previous scythe had" Ulthane said with a giant grin when Ruby looked the scythes and saw the button to compress it and pushed it.
The scythes compressed down into two twin heavy pistols, the left had a red handle with a black barrel while the right had a black handle and a red barrel, both of the guns had the silver burning rose on it's respective side of the barrel. The excess of the two scythes, the blades and some of the shaft became two vambraces that covered her forearms. The vambraces was all red with the image a black symbol Ruby never seen before but it looked like a intricate way of making a horses face with runes circling around it in the middle of the vambraces (Darksiders symbol)
"Cool" Ruby said silently as they all had to chuckle at before Ruby address Ulthane "This is really amazing, thank you very much but I do have one question" Ruby asked politely as Ulthane raised a brow but gestured her to continue "When my scythe is in it's full form can I still compress it to it sniper form" Ruby asked "Of course it still can" Ulthane said as Ruby grinned at him "Good I wouldn't want to lose that part of my scythe, plus I really love these gauntlets when it's in its pistol form. I wonder if I could get some gloves to match it" Ruby said muttering the last part as the others heard her
"Oy Valus, don't you have those gloves you been meaning to sell" Alya said as Valus grunted while walking over to his workstation and pushed aside some of his things and began looking for the gloves they were talking about. Valus began tossing stuff from his workstation to various parts of the room as twice the things he threw blew up on contact making everyone sweat drop
Valus soon grunted in recognition as he pulled out a case and walked over back to the group. Valus opened the box and pulled out two black gloves and gave them to Ruby and gestured her to put on. Ruby not wanting to be rude put on the gloves and felt how soft it was on her skin. She soon noticed that on the back of her palm was made of a dense metal covering the back of her hand where only gaps appeared between her fingers joints. The knuckles on her glove was silver contrasting to the black and she noticed she could beat down anyone with these gloves alone
"Wow, you guys really came prepared to make my weapons. And they all match my outfit too" Ruby said happily making everyone nearly face fault when she said that. Death the first one to compose himself shook his head at his daughters antics before ruffling her hair a bit "I'll be sure to send the bill later" Ulthane said as Alya and Valus walked waved goodbye as they began working on some materials at their workstations
"Of course, I'll make a transaction when we get back to the academy" Death said as Ruby instantly remembered she was missing class before she disappeared in cloud of roses "COME ON, IF WE DON'T LEAVE NOW WE WON'T MAKE IT TO THE AIRSHIPS" Ruby shouted at them from the entrance of the inner forge "You do know I haven't even given you the holsters for the guns yet right?" Ulthane said as Ruby looked at her weapons to her father
"Give it to dad, I'll get from him on the airship, I'll see you at the airship and thank you everyone for giving me Crescent Rose II" Ruby said happily before disappearing through the door with a flurry of rose petals in her wake ". . . . . . . Are you 100% sure she's your daughter" Ulthane asked as Death gave out a dry laugh before Ulthane gave him the two black holsters and Death saying his goodbyes which was just him waving goodbye as he walked out of the inner forge and walked towards the airships where she saw her daughter standing at the door of the airship shouted at him to hurry up
Death shook his head walking to her, slowly as Ruby kept on yelling at him to hurry up as the engine of the airship began to start up as Death laughed openly at his daughters face of distraught before appearing next to her and threw her into the airship as he stepped in as the door closed behind him. Ruby pouted at him when she got up off the ground she thrown onto while Death just sat leisurely on the seats next to the windows
They soon arrived back at Beacon in few hours as Ruby rushed out the doors muttering 'crap, crap, crap, crap' over and over again as she ran straight to her current class leaving behind her father who sighed at her actions "I'm amazed how my niece acts completely different from you" A familiar voice stated as Death groaned as he turned around to see Strife standing behind him
"How the hell did you follow me if you weren't on the airship" Death asked dryly to his brother "Simple, I was holding on to the sides the entire time" Strife said as if it was normal while Death gave him a blank stare ". . . . . Leave" Death asked after a moment of silence "Wha- Why?" Strife asked slightly taken back "Because the second you stay here I'll probably destroy half the academy to make you leave. And I haven't even hired that repairman yet" Death said dryly as he remembered he needed to give that Evi guy a call
"Well too bad because I'm staying for awhile so you'll see more of me, maybe I should give War a call and tell him about our lovely niece" Strife said with a sadistic tone "What do you want" Death demanded dryly "Nothing, I actually want to spend time with my niece, why the hell should I let Fury have all the fun of spending time with her" Strife complained as Death let out a groan "Sometimes I wonder why I never cut that tongue of yours before shoving it down into your throat so you could choke on your tongue" Death demanded slightly as Strife huffed in annoyance
"Geez a guy tries to be fun and the only response you get is tongue cutting. Man is it good to see you Death" Strife said happily as Death groaned "Now where shall I take my wonderful niece. Oh I heard about a great st-" Strife stopped talking when Death pulled out Redemption and pointed it at Strife who gave him a blank look at Death
Strife gave out a dry huff "Fine, I won't take her to a strip club, still say she could go that way but okay" Strife said innocently while Death put his free hand against his mask "Oh I know I'll take her out drinking" Strife said as Death's fist made contact with his mask "Why the hell do you always make problems for me" Death said with a tired voice "Well I do love making STRIFE after all" Strife quipped as Death gave him a blank look before walking slowly to his brother with his eyes covered in the darkness of his mask
"U-Uh brother, what are doing" Strife asked slightly worried as Death cracked his knuckles "Now, now brother let's not do anything hasty. How about we go watch a play, I heard they're playing the Death waltz as the opening" Strife joked as Death let out his aura as he now stood in front of Strife looming over him viciously ". . . I regret nothing" Strife said before the air began to fill with grunts and yells of pain and agony. . . . A typical day in Beacon really
Well I hope you enjoy this chapter and yes Strife had his moment before War, why? Because I love torturing you lot into not seeing your favorite horseman (Cue evil laughter) but I digress you'll see him in due time, sooner than expected with the next special I have planned.
Also a big thanks to Nutshop for letting me use his character if you know who he is in my story. Well that's all have to say, please leave a comment, review, PM and I'll see you all later. Have a great day
